Michael Shepherd

Lead AI Research Technologist, Dell EMC Support & Deployment Services

Michael Shepherd is a Technical Evangelist with 20 years’ experience, providing vision and leadership through transformational AI initiatives. As the Lead AI Research Technologist at Dell EMC in Support & Deployment Services his insights into supply chain, manufacturing and software services are foundational to his message that a proper perspective should be at the core of all data science and product performance analytics.

Michael leads the Dell Data Science Forum and offers his expertise both as a member of the Advisory Council at UT McCombs School of Business MBA and with the core team for Xavier’s Artificial Intelligence Initiative for Pharma. He is an innovator with twelve patents spanning hardware and software methods in eight countries.

When he isn’t consumed by data science he can be found hiking with family and friends somewhere off the beaten path and out of service.

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